Friday, May 26, 2006
WASHINGTON -- West Virginia's Medicaid families can face a reduction in benefits if they say no to sign contracts promising to show up for doctors appointments and use the crisis room only for emergencies. Kentucky, meanwhile, is putting new limits on prescriptions and visits to therapists.
They're the first two states to take benefit of a new law that makes it easier to mix and match which residents get which benefits beneath Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health indemnity coverage to about 55 million low-income people.
In years past, when states provided a health advantage for their Medicaid beneficiaries, they had to do so for all of the participants in their state. The concept, called comparability, definite comprehensive health insurance coverage for the poorest of the poor.
"'At the end of the day, I see this leading to people not getting things they need," Solomon said.
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